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Chihiro NAGASHIMA: alien age
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Written by KALONSNET Editor   
Published: September 02 2010

Copyright © Chihiro Nagashima/IMURA ART GALLERY

Chihiro Nagashima was born in 1983 in Shizuoka.
She currently lives and works in Tokyo after graduated from Kyoto Saga University of Arts in 2006. She positively exhibited the works while in the university.
She was nominated by TOKYO WONDER WALL award2004. And in 2007, she was awarded the grand prize in the same award. In recompense for this grand prize, she realized her solo exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall.
In 2008, Nagashima had solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Kyoto (imura art gallery).

Nagashima uses acrylic on paper, characterized in delicate outline and flat surface, using different color such as achromatic and pop colors.
Portrayed figures by the artist, resident somewhere but here….
The world of the artist's mind that extends constantly can't be depict by the word painting style neither 'Western' nor 'Japanese','Illustration', 'Animation'.
It is new and remarkable as the original works.
This is Nagashima’s second exhibition at our gallery in 2 years. We will show around 10 works including 2 large works (194*130.3cm).

Artist's statement
My picture starts from generation of vision.
Images occasionally come up to my mind.
Some of them are what I saw in my childhood.
They could not make any form and were only floating.
By receiving some kind of impact,
floating things and sensation turn into an image of a picture.
These images connect each other by facing pure white paper, and link together to be realized as a picture.
Things cannot be expressed by words,
things I forgot and things I didn't notice though I saw.
But all of them exist actually on the paper.
Alien age, it is the age that is chaos just as they are.
In the time when someone in somewhere was an alien.
I think their spirits express something in somewhere.
I would like to see what kind of shapes and colors they are by drawing pictures.

Chihiro Nagashima
1983 Born in Shizuoka, Japan
2006 Graduated from Kyoto Saga Art University (BA), Major Oil Painting

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 "Udai no mori ", Aokaba Gallery, Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2007
2008 Takeda Bijutsu, Tokyo
"at the space time", imura art gallery, Kyoto
"The stranger", Tokyo Wonder site HONGO

Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 "At Nakamura house ", Sapporo, Hokkaido
"DISCOVERY 2005 ", Aokaba Gallery, Tokyo
2008 WONDER SEEDS 2008, Tokyo Wonder site SHIBUYA
2010 "TOKYO WONDER WALL 2000-2009 ", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo

Awarded
2004 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2004 accepted
2007 The grand prix awarded Tokyo Wonder Wall 2007
2008 WONDER SEEDS 2008 accepted
* The text provided by imura art gallery.

Opened dates: September 4 - 25, 2010

Last Updated on September 04 2010
 

Editor's Note by 


An angel or mermaid are drawn in Nagashima's paintings. Those characters to whom the reality parts begin to draw in the fantasies by a bright color to think of illustration and animation.


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